Definitions for fallacies

fallacies fal·la·cy

Spelling: [fal-uh-see]
IPA: /ˈfæl ə si/

Fallacies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in fallacies (aacefills).

Definitions for fallacies

noun

  1. a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.:
  2. a misleading or unsound argument.
  3. deceptive, misleading, or false nature; erroneousness.
  4. Logic. any of various types of erroneous reasoning that render arguments logically unsound.
  5. Obsolete. deception.

Origin of fallacies

1350-1400; Latin fallācia a trick, deceit, equivalent to fallāc- (stem of fallāx) deceitful, fallacious + -ia -y3; replacing Middle English fallace Middle Fre

Examples for fallacies

In the 'Innocents' he laughs at delusions and fallacies—and enjoys them.

It also helps to guard us against some fallacies by showing the consequences which flow from them.

See this phrase expounded in Works ('Book of fallacies'), ii.

“That is one of the most popular of fallacies,” she answered me crushingly.

It is to these failures and fallacies that attention will be drawn in the next chapter.

These are the facts to rebut just a few of the fallacies I read on a daily basis about our party.

Science has been built upon concurrence: so have been most of the fallacies and fanaticisms.

Masood Aziz outlines six fallacies they perpetuate about the US engagement in Afghanistan.

But this post-partisan dream, it turns out, rested on two fallacies.

Perhaps Bentham's Book of fallacies is too political for me to commend it to you here.

Word Value for fallacies
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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